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New Hampshire History Timeline

Long the ancestral home of the Indians, this land was first colonized by the British in the early 1600s. In 1629, a settlement built near present-day Rye was named New Hampshire, after the English county of Hampshire. Portsmouth was founded one year later. The scattered communities here united in 1639, and later agreed to become… Read More »

Nevada History Timeline

For countless centuries, this rugged land has been the traditional home of the American Indians, including the Goshute, Paiute, Shoshone and Washo tribes. When scouring the area for gold treasure in the 1770s, Spanish explorers took a risk; they were accompanied (in the early 1800s) by several fur traders and trappers passing on their way… Read More »

Nebraska History Timeline

This land we now call Nebraska was long the sacred home of the American Indian tribes; they raised their children and crops; hunted buffalo that roamed the Great Plains, and for the most part, lived in peace. In an aggressive and relentless search for gold and other treasures, the Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado… Read More »

Montana History Timeline

Long before European explorers crossed the plains and mountains of Montana, more than a dozen Native American tribes flourished in the region, including the Arapaho, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Nez Persa, Shoshone, and Sioux. French explorers ventured into the area from Canada in the mid-1700s, but for the next half century, this vast land was entirely controlled… Read More »

Missouri History Timeline

History of Missouri Long before European explorers arrived, this land was the ancestral home of American Indian tribes; they raised their children and crops; hunted abundant land, and for the most part, lived in peace. In 1673, intrepid French explorers, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, made their way down the Mississippi River to a… Read More »

Mississippi History Timeline

Long home to the Chickasaw, Choctaw and Natchez Indian tribes, the first Spanish explorer to reach the area was Hernando De Soto, who discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River in the mid-1500s. Mississippi lands were claimed by France in 1682 by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. In fact, after sailing down the Mississippi… Read More »

Minnesota History Timeline

Minnesota is the northernmost contiguous US state and the only state lying north of the 49th Parallel of the contiguous 48 US states. Referred to as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, there are 11,842 lakes within its borders, as well as 6,564 natural rivers and countless streams. The name Minnesota was derived from the Dakota… Read More »

Michigan History Timeline

Michigan history During the last Ice Age, North America was sculpted by massive glaciers, resulting in craters formed by receding (melting) ice. During that process, the Great Lakes were born and Michigan was formed. Europeans began to explore the area in the 1600s. The first white explorer into the area was the Frenchman Étienne Bruhl… Read More »

Massachusetts History Timeline

The original inhabitants of Massachusetts (the Algonquian Indians) would eventually perish from diseases brought to the land by European explorers in the late 16th century and from the brutality of colonial expansion through their ancestral homelands. In 1620 a religious group from England known as the Pilgrims arrived in the Mayflower, landing near Provincetown. They… Read More »

Maryland History Timeline

For centuries, American Indians have inhabited this land called Maryland. Most of those Indians belonged to a large family of tribes known as the Algonquins, who lived peacefully along the Chesapeake Bay; fishing and hunting and trading with their neighbors on the Atlantic coastline. In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian explorer sailing under the… Read More »

Maine History Timeline

Will Rogers once quipped, “Have you ever seen a place that looks like it was built just to enjoy? Well, this whole Maine is looking that way towards me.” In fact, Maine’s stunning landscape is a by-product of the last Ice Age, as a massive glacier cut the straight coastline into hundreds of bays, inlets… Read More »

Louisiana History Timeline

History of Louisiana This southern state has a rich history and a unique blend of cultures that is unmatched anywhere else in the United States. The Louisiana area was first inhabited by Native American tribes including the Atakapa, Boocana, Nakasa and at least 12 other Indian clans. The first European explorers arrived from Spain and… Read More »

Kentucky History Timeline

The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home, ‘It’s summer, the people are gay; grain top ready and meadow in flower while the birds make music all day. Lyrics and music from “My Old Kentucky Home”, by Stephen Foster.In the mid-1700s, the French, Spanish, and English began to explore this land of green hills,… Read More »

Kansas History Timeline

Kansas was once occupied by legions of American Indians; they raised their children and crops; hunted tens of thousands of buffalo that roamed the vast plains, and for the most part, lived in peace. Looking for gold and other treasures, the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado arrived here in 1540. He was followed in… Read More »

Iowa History Timeline

French explorers Joliet and Marquette first sighted Iowa in 1673 when they were canoeing the Mississippi River . In 1682, La Salle explored the Mississippi River and claimed all the lands drained by it for King Louis XIV of France. In 1788, Julien Dubuc, the first white settler arrived. He thrived among the Mesquakie Indian… Read More »

Indiana History Timeline

An advanced mound-building culture (Mississippians) flourished in this area of ​​North America from AD 800 to the mid-15th century. As a result of the mid-17th century French and Iroquoian wars in New France, much of North America, many indigenous Indian tribes were forced further west into the central Great Lakes region just to survive. Miami… Read More »

Illinois History Timeline

HISTORY OF ILLINOIS The retreating glaciers of the Ice Age certainly left their mark on large areas of Illinois, giving way to a landscape of rolling country and prairie, thus earning Illinois the nickname, “Prairie State.” An advanced mound-building culture ( called the Mississippians) flourished in this area of ​​North America from AD 800 to… Read More »

Idaho History Timeline

Nomadic big game hunters inhabited the area now known as Idaho about 12,000 years ago. Around 5,000 years ago cultures with permanent homes emerged and around 1500 years ago bow and arrows came into use. By the 1700s, there was evidence of the Nez Perce in northern Idaho and the Shoshone in the Serpent River… Read More »

Hawaii History Timeline

In modern times the US state of Hawaii is certainly one of the top travel destinations on the planet, and to quote the American author, Mark Twain, Hawaii is the finest fleet of islands that is anchored in any ocean…” However, the first inhabitants to set foot here sometime around 500 AD were not on… Read More »

Georgia History Timeline

The Spaniards arrived here in 1540, destroying the quiet way of life of the American Indians. In only a few short years, forts and missions were built along the offshore islands; all subsequently becoming easy targets for the pirates who terrorized the area. In the late 17th century, the British and Spanish fought for control.… Read More »

Florida History Timeline

Author Buddha Schulberg once quipped of Florida, ” … It’s a melting pot, a frontier, a place to improve your health or your luck.” First seen and explored by Juan Ponce de León in 1513 while on his famous quest for the mythical Fountain of Youth, he subsequently claimed the land of Spain and named… Read More »

Delaware History Timeline

Long before European settlers arrived, it was the ancestral homeland of many Algonquian Indian tribes. All would eventually lose their lands and those who survived the brutality of colonial expansion fled west over the Alleghenies. The earliest explorations of the coastal zone were organized by the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Spanish. In 1609, unsuccessfully… Read More »

Connecticut History Timeline

The original inhabitants of Connecticut (Algonquian Indians) referred to this land as Quinnetukut, which is believed to mean ” The Place of the Long River”. All those Native Americans would perish from diseases brought to this land by European explorers in the 17th century, and from the brutality of colonial expansion through their ancestral homelands.… Read More »

Colorado History Timeline

In the Colorado area, centuries before the white came on the scene, nomadic Indians foraged the plains for edible vegetation and small animals. In about 100 AD, in the Four Corners area of ​​southwestern Colorado, the very advanced Anasazi Indians built functional, high-rise cliff dwellings in the canyon walls; later their entire culture simply disappeared.… Read More »

California History Timeline

Long before European explorers explored this land called California, its Stone Age, mostly Asian inhabitants, arrived here by crossing the Bering Strait, and over the centuries that followed a wide variety of cultures developed and flourished. The Portuguese navigator, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, arrived along the California coastline in 1542. His two-ship expedition landed in San… Read More »

Arkansas History Timeline

Arkansas was inhabited by a number of American Indians prior to exploration in the late 16th century by the Spanish explorer, Hernando De Soto. Frenchman Henri de Tonti established the first permanent white settlement in 1686 at Arkansas Post. In 1803, land was acquired from France by the United States as part of the Louisiana… Read More »

Arizona History Timeline

Indigenous peoples from Central America and South America, as well as from Mexico, had already traveled north to this land now called Arizona, some 25,000 BC. The legendary Apache and Navajo countries began arriving in Arizona in the 13th century, and somewhere between the 11th and 14th centuries, the Pueblo Indian culture built their mysterious… Read More »

Alaska History Timeline

Alaska is the largest US state – in fact it is larger than all but 18 countries of the world, and about 1/5 of the total land area of ​​48 contiguous states. Since the Aleutian Islands traverse 180 degree longitude lines, Alaska is actually the westernmost, northernmost, and easternmost state! It’s rugged and besides glaciers,… Read More »

Alabama History Timeline

Long home to a variety of Indian tribes, the first Spanish explorer, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, sailed to Mobile Bay in 1519. The British and Spanish remained active here, but the first permanent European settlers were actually French, arriving in the late 17th century. By 1711 Fort Louis (on the present Mobile site) was settled,… Read More »

Nunavut, Canada

Overview According to Topschoolsintheusa, the Nunavut wilderness covers one-fifth of Canada’s total area. Here you’ll find polar bears and whales and all the things associated with a visit to the Arctic: dog sledding, igloo visits and the wonderful Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) illuminating the impenetrable darkness. Nunavut was named Canada’s largest and youngest province in… Read More »